Friday, August 5, 2016

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce a new GA release
of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for usability, stability, and a few enhancements for better compatibility with MySQL 5.7. A complete list of all
improvements can be found in our release notes.

Many Improvements!

This release represents a stable
release of the product and is a significant improvement from the 1.5 release. Along with defect patches, we also
include the following enhancements.

Support for MySQL 5.7

New! Binlog Utilities:

mysqlbinlogpurge - purge old binary logs

mysqlbinlogrotate - rotate the binary log

mysqlbinlogmove - relocate binary log files

New! Replication Utilities:

mysqlslavetrx - skip transactions on one or more slaves to solve errant transactions and consistency error

New! General Utilities:

mysqlgrants - show grants for users

Improved functionality of --exclude option with SQL wildcards

Improved packaging in RPM and Windows distributions

Improved accuracy of calculated disk usage for mysqldiskusage

Improved packaging in RPM and Windows distributions

Improved output for mysqldbcompare and mysqldiff

Improved SSL support

The Replication utilities have undergone a number of improvements for new 5.7 features as well as quality and usability improvements.

The documentation has been improved including more descriptions of SSL connections and clarification of replication commands.

Finally, this release contains a host of minor improvements for quality and robustness

How Can I Download MySQL Utilities?

You can download
MySQL Utilities 1.6.4 GA from the following link using one of the
pre-built installation repositories including a source download.